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Episode 6712
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No Paltry Thing: Memoirs of a Geezer Dad
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I loved this book! Meyer tells a heartwarming and, yes, sometimes heartbreaking story of a man grappling with his own mortality while raising three young children the second time around.

I especially loved the moments in which Meyer bonds with his young children: with his eldest daughter Molly and their shared discovery of words through great books; with his younger daughter Madeleine and her imaginative dabling in careers from lemonade-stand entrepreneur, to Bed-and-Breakfast manager, to house private eye; and with his youngest son Franz and their paired love of baseball. He recalls the events of his children's lives with such rich and simple descriptions that the reader expereinces these moments along with Meyer and his family.

Even in its darkest moments--say when Meyer relives several near-death accidents of his children; or when he faces the truth of his own aging, failing body; or, most chillingly, when he imagines the events of his children's lives he may miss--what shines through is a deep and undying family love.

I laughed. I cried. I was edified.

Copenhagen wood separators to 1727 (Entertainment paltry nine harmdoers) Art Poster Print - 11" X 17"
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Copenhagen wood separators to 1727 (Entertainment paltry nine harmdoers) Art Poster Print - 11" X 17"

Simon Denny - Paltry Motion
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Simon Denny's practice emphasizes relationships within communities of things; complex sculptural combinations of objects and images found, bought, gathered and made. Denny's approach is holistic, seeking and building upon analogous connections between the various formal and conceptual aspects of his work. Typically, Denny's installations are formed from predetermined fragments then assembled within a given space, which to a significant extent determines the final form and content of the work. The finished work is thus more accurately described as the formal resolution of Denny's working process, of sensing and facilitating interconnections between composite elements and the ideas they can contribute to a larger project. Denny presents his audiences with situations that tend to foreground an engagement with associations of form, purpose and action. Constructions of everyday materials are combined with and are often comprised of - domestic ready-mades and found imagery. His apparent crude modesty of form belies the poetic intelligence of the works coming-to-be and sculptural conceits. Denny's art-making is rooted in consumption and presentation; considerations of performance and moments of recapitulation which embed the artist s activity in his material objects and images chosen in the first instance for the character and activity they already inhabit. Denny has had an active interest in artist-run initiatives in Auckland including Special Gallery (2003-2006) and as a founding member of Gambia Castle (2007 - ). Simon Denny currently lives and works in Auckland and Frankfurt am Main. Exhibition Catalogue, Co-Published by Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Michael Lett Publishing, 2007. Cloth-bound oversize slipcase with gold foil blocking on cover and spine, containing found circular, and exhibition catalogue: 8 pages, lightweight gloss stock, folded, unstitched. 89 monochrome illustrations. Essay by Jim Barr and Mary Barr. Text and additional photography by the artist. Overall: 307 x 303 mm (portrait). Spine width: 38mm.